Vole Family
Description Vole Family
These are very dangerous nonmemory resident encrypted parasitic viruses. They search for .COM files in the current and parent directories, then write themselves to the end of the file. Before return control to the host program they erase disk sectors and display the message:
Inherit the Wind !!!
They also contain the strings:
Inherit the Wind
Vole Puppy
*IW* *VP*
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Mao.1465
Description Mao.1465
This is a benign memory resident parasitic partly encrypted virus. It hooks INT 1Ch and 21h, and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. The virus also infects files upon the summoning of DOS functions FindFirst/Next FCB (DIR command). On September 9th (the day of Mao Tse Tung's death), and on December 26th (his birthday), the virus plays two Chinese tunes.
Marawi.2828
Description Marawi.2828
It is not a dangerous memory resident parasitic virus. It hooks INT 8, 21h and writes itself to the end of COM and EXE files that are executed. Some time after installation it manifests itself with the video effect: it displays the message and draws the picture:
+----------------------------------------------------+
¦ Ang VIRUS na ito ay taos-puso naming inaalay kay ¦
¦ Professor HERMILITO GO ng MSU-IIT. Kung hindi ¦
¦ dahil sa kanyang KAHAMBUGAN ang VIRUS na ito ay ¦
¦ hindi maisasakatuparanall ¦
¦ ¦
¦ Signing off, ¦
¦ ¦
+----------------------------------------------------+
It also contains the text strings:
MSU Philippines
BY: Someone of MSU Main Campus, Marawi City
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